1/6 SS: 1/6 General Grievous MODIFICATION & photography thread

[MandoMan531]

Damn Rory this is good work! Any tips on what you did to the cape? That alone changes the look a lot IMO.

 

[McHaleyArt]

Hunch Mod. More on that later. Pics now.

 

[mao86]

Great pictures and poses. Pic 3# is awesome. The Hunch Mod came out perfect...details!!!!

 

[Rorywan]

Looks good Mark! What's the tube at the back of the neck?

Here's the breakdown of what I did as promised last week, sorry been bogged down at work. Excuse the crude drawings, it's hard to explain any other way. This is super simple to do, and doesn't damage your figure in any visible way...
I found the hunch was reasonably straightforward, the trick is getting the face to be able to tilt/look upwards when he is hunched over? this solves that issue..

First do this:


Then you can do this:

 

[LoveMinusZero]

Those are great, Rory, thanks a lot!

Killer pics McHaley!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Awesome hunch, McHaley!

And that battle pose is outstanding!

And Rory, excellent instruction sheet. I'm tempted. My concern, on my figure personally, is that the head is somewhat lose so I fear cutting out anything that helps hold its position. Also when you separate the head and neck (collar) does the rubber stuff come out with it? I've been busy with Gothmog this past week but I want to get back to Grievous again.

 

[Rorywan]

And Rory, excellent instruction sheet. I'm tempted. My concern, on my figure personally, is that the head is somewhat lose so I fear cutting out anything that helps hold its position. Also when you separate the head and neck (collar) does the rubber stuff come out with it? I've been busy with Gothmog this past week but I want to get back to Grievous again.

The rubber stuff is so easy to remove and reattach, all that is sticking it is a drop of crazy glue. I actually gave mine a little silver dry brushing when I had it off and it looks a lot better. Also you can tighten the head joint easily once you pop it off the ball, just put a few drops of glue or varnish, or paint and it will thicken the ball ever so slightly stiffening the joint?

 

[lerath666]

rory, can you post some pictures of the cuts you made, just to make it 100% clear what you did?

 

[Rorywan]

rory, can you post some pictures of the cuts you made, just to make it 100% clear what you did?

I did a while back let me see where they are..

 

[Rorywan]

I've been trying to put everything on the front page.. these are old pics, but you get the idea..
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[MandoMan531]

I think my post was lost in the flood of posts

Any tips on the cape?

And thanks for the instruction sheet! I'm doing that as soon as I get mine!

 

[McHaleyArt]

I was originally going to use these 1/8" armature joints for Grievous' spine (as they are the correct shape) and pose his head/neck from there. I would have had to split his body in two to anchor it though, so I used them as the new neck joints instead. Using a piece of split tubing as his spine. The tubing is farther away form accurate, but I'm fine with it and it's easily adjustable when you pose the neck/head.
There's a screw going up into the neck joint with the head cut off, going back down into the body (drill small hole). When screwing it in, this just gets the base/ball joint of the neck into the hard plastic body...that isn't as flexible as the other sockets.
I covered the joints in Shrink Tubing.

At first, I had his neck and under-neck out a bit far...Gave him awesome hunch, but solid as the joints were, the figure looked less solid to me.

I took out a joint for the upper and lower necks, added a Y connecter for his head to connect to (removing part of the "Y").

This is what it looked like at first:

And now:

I also used Shrink Tubing to extend his Throat Tubes, etc. I'll revisit this at some time, replacing as much as I think looks better.
Again. 1st Try:

2nd Try:

 

[McHaleyArt]

 

[LipSmack]

That certainly achieve the hunching pose... just looks a bit too elongated to me though. still, very brave work man

 

[Wor-Gar]

That's very inventive!

 

[McHaleyArt]

That certainly achieve the hunching pose... just looks a bit too elongated to me though. still, very brave work man

He's Stretch-Arm_Grievous. Me likey my GG more now.

 

[shocktrooper_au]

You guys have made this figure look incredible, great work

 

[LipSmack]

He's Stretch-Arm_Grievous. Me likey my GG more now.
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yeah I think its the collar part you elongated, though in the screen shots that area is covered by the cape so I cant really say if its wrong

still really cool

 

[Mazukou]

So hows the bleeding issue on your figs at the moment guys?

 

[McHaleyArt]

So hows the bleeding issue on your figs at the moment guys?

Haven't seen anything yet.